Websites that I have found to promote reading comprehension skills:

• Great source for specific skill practice
• Reading Comprehension
• Great source for discovering mysteries
• StarFall - Pre-K - 2nd grade online activities that promote literacy, see Learn To Read
• Literactive- interactive primary reading activities
• IPL Kidspace Reading Zone Many stories to choose from-be sure to get the Firefox add-on for audio if desired.
• StoryPlace - children's digital library
• Primary Games - Language arts
• Between the Lions - from PBS
• Scholastic - large website with many activities
• KidPort - by grade level
• Learning Planet - by grade level, subject or category
• Grammar Blast- by grade level
• Story Line Online - Listen to stories read by Screen Actors Guild members - follow along with the text
• Browser Books - "This website was created to allow beginning readers to read books on their web browser. Readers can click on the triangle in the lower right-hand corner of each page to turn the pages. If they are unsure of a word, they can click on it to hear a child's voice read the word to them. The books have been sorted by level and by subject according to the curriculum." (from the website)
• Into the Book - Excellent reading comprehension resource - Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. K-4
• Children's Library.org has books in many languages, text that can be enlarged, and many can be used in many activities such as digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises.
• Wacky Web Tales - create your own story by adding in the parts of speech
• Internet 4 Classrooms
• Sesame Street - browse by subject or theme
• Cast UDL Book Builder - Free online tool for creating digital books with embedded prompts.
• Aesop's Fables are audio enabled. Aesop's Fables Some have animations, sound & interactivity.
• Poetry Foundation - free resource to find poetry by category, by name, by title, by author, or by first line. It's digital, attach a voice and it's now accessible.
• AndersenFairyTales has folk and fairy tales with flash animation and narrations.
• I'm Hans Christian Andersen Song to introduce him.
• Wordsift
• Grimm's Fairy Tales - some have audio.
• SurLaLaune Fairy Tales has annotations with definitions.
• Norwegian Folk Tales - be sure to get the Firefox add-on for audio if desired.
• Online Publishing & Lessons for Fairy Tales, Myths, Etc. from Scholastic
• Whootie Owl's Stories to Grow by - choose by country, type of story, theme and age.
• FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.
• Reading Rockets has videos, podcasts, interviews with author and much more.
• Kidsreads.com has videos, podcasts and much more.
• Primary Reading Games

Just plain cool stuff to check out: